Earth System

Question 1

Abiotic

Answer 1

Non-living things in an enviorment

Question 2

Atmosphere

Answer 2

An envelope of gas that surrounds the earth

Question 3

Bio

Answer 3

Means living or life

Question 4

Biosphere

Answer 4

The sum of all ecosystems on earth

Question 5

Biotic

Answer 5

A living factor eg plants, animals

Question 6

Crust

Answer 6

A layer or the lithosphere, made up of tectonic plates

Question 7

Cryosphere

Answer 7

Apart of the hydrosphere, it includes ice caps, glaciers and iceburgs

Question 8

Greenhouse Gasses

Answer 8

Apart of the atmosphere, and consists of CO2, methane, ozone

Question 9

Groundwater

Answer 9

Water under the ground, normally freshwater

Question 10

Lithosphere

Answer 10

The solid, outer part of the earth, including the crust and upper mantle

Question 11

Mesosphere

Answer 11

Apart of the atmosphere, its the third layer and is where asteroids are found

Question 12

Salinity

Answer 12

How salty water is

Question 13

Stratosphere

Answer 13

Apart of the atmosphere, the 2nd layer that contains the ozone

Question 14

Tectonic plates

Answer 14

The plates that make up the earths crust

Question 15

Turbidity

Question 16

Thermosphere

Answer 16

Apart of the atmosphere, the 4th layer, where satellites and space shuttles are found.

Question 17

Troposphere

Answer 17

The first layer of the atmosphere, where greenhouse gases, nitrogen, O2, argon and CO2 are found

Question 18

Upper mantle

Answer 18

Under the crust, its composed of molten and is apart of the lithosphere

Question 19

Water vapor

Answer 19

Gas form of water

Question 20

Germination

Answer 20

The process in which a plant grows from a seed into a seedling.